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I think all of us who see this picture are smelling burnt toast this morning. At least I think so, but my eyes are bleeding so copiously right now that I'm a bit distracted.

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I think all of us are smelling burnt toast this morning. At least I think so, but my eyes are bleeding so copiously right now that I'm a bit distracted.

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RIP Michael Keller Ditka, aka Da Coach of Da Bears.

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My man looks like an excellent candidate for steerage passenger on the first Mars expedition. (Seriously, how quickly can all the Mars-stans leave? It can't happen a nanosecond too soon.)

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Whether it’s Democrats giving students the day off for Martin Luther King Day or Texas Republicans reducing school to 4 days a week to finance more tax breaks, both parties have cut the number of school days.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My MAGA focus group felt betrayed by tariffs, high gas prices, and inflation. I asked if there was any way Republicans could win back their support, and they replied only if they could prove that the pain had fallen harder on Black people.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 08/10/2026

North Carolinians and Oklahomans, your voter registration deadline is tomorrow. Are you registered to vote? Do you know the important deadlines for casting your ballot? Check our interactive state map for key voting information. bit.ly/3UjBBrc

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Everything You Need to Vote

Here's what to do and how to get more information if you have questions.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it’s whatever they’re mad about. always has been. it doesn’t mean anything to them, it’s just a place to store bad feelings.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What a stupid and intellectually dishonest answer by JD Vance. He defines socialism as anything that's icky. Under that definition, I think lima beans are socialist.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh yeah, those are definitely the Big Two when it comes to understanding socialism. Check out the big brain on J.D. here! He's definitely not an idiot.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whether it's Bill Clinton using tax-payer money to pay for the postage on letters back to people who wrote to his cat or Donald Trump steering hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts to his son's companies, both presidents engaged in corruption on an unprecedented scale.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank heaven someone finally asked the question: "How do you define socialism?" Because this REALLY ISN'T IT. Sheesh. "Socialism" to Vance is -- random things I hate.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 08/10/2026

As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F

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Alan Neff @alanneff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In response to your wonderment...the answer is "Yes."

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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A worthy successor to bombshells such as "whats in the Mayor's wife's Spotify playlist" and "the media has been exaggerating the suffering of Palestinian children"

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Alan Neff @alanneff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A definition (😉) of "socialism" that doesn't focus on public ownership of the means of production (which the Trump administration likes, e.g., with Intel), aligns with 2026 R midterm-messaging, and revisits the time-tested R trope that "They" want to take your [insert thing(s) voters want to keep].

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One good thing about being on medical leave is that it lets me feature some of my favorite writers and activists. Today we have a guest post from, @lolgop.bsky.social, written for CARD, about one of my favorite topics: bitter divorced billionaires and their far more sane exes. Enjoy!

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How the Women Who Survived Elon Musk Expose Him Best

The women of “Musk” offer a clarity we’d better act on.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026

I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...

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Alan Neff @alanneff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🎶Hope you guess màhhhh name.🎶

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whether it's Barack Obama asking for dijon mustard or Donald Trump admitting to a series of sexual assaults, there have been embarrassing moments for presidents on both sides of the aisle.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. Congress can, in fact, say the court got the Constitution wrong, on such questions as: - Should there only be 9 Wizards in Robes, or 47, or 100, or 250? - Should the Wizards have a building? Clerks? Docket control? - Should they ride the circuit? On horses?

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Alan Neff @alanneff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You're a tough audience, DR. IMO, Ted Lasso, The Bear, Battlestar Galactica, and GOT were damaged by their late artistic collapses, but that didn't destroy my appreciation of all their earlier good work. Also, it's difficult to maintain the kind of creative quality that a multi-season show requires.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tick Tock In many places 5 pm is the deadline. Register to vote already. 🗳️

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Bari Weiss-ification of CBS News continues. Dennis Hastert was convicted of the sexual abuse of high school students under his supervision as a high school wrestling coach. Banking rules violations were his transfers of hush money payments which he misdescribed and which allowed

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If we're going to denaturalize and deport people for sex trafficking they hid on their citizenship applications, is there a reason this would not apply to Ghislaine Maxwell?

CHILD SEX ABUSER’S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED AFTER NATURALIZATION FRAUD CONVICTION

Cyril Domaquik Clemens, a Liberian native, was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties with a child after confessing to sexually molesting a young child.

The abuse began before he naturalized, but he concealed it during the citizenship process, fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

➡️Learn more about ICE’s role in immigration fraud investigations by searching our website for “Operation False Haven.”

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Alan Neff @alanneff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🤔➡️😒➡️🤬 A+ legal sophistry A+ sexism F women's health, safety, and social/legal equality

Jay Weixelbaum @jayweixelbaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Prominent Republican pedophile has died.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In case you weren't aware, the only competent Republican speaker of the House in the modern era was also a child molester

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Americans picked Trump II, and their biggest objection is high prices. Hungary chose Orban, and their eventual big objection was corruption. Erdogan and Modi won multiple terms. Brazilians about to go Bolsonaro again. Not always free and fair, but yeah, millions want it. Wouldn’t work otherwise.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hope you're right, but low-information voters helped put Trump back into office, so..😒.

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Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...

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Trump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost Town

In Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention.

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Meanwhile in the rust belt, Maestro Will Venable just conducted another White Sox bullpen miracle. The man seems to be good at his job.

Normally I get and enjoy everything you write here, but I'm struggling with the indefinite antecedent and the mixed metaphors. They = Ukraine? Rugpull = ? Deck shuffle = 2026 midterms?

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